Match the Term with the Definition

question 39

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the definition.
-Investment sponsored by banks and bankers that typified the American business scene at the end of the nineteenth century. After the Panic of 1893, bankers stepped in and reorganized major industries to stabilize them, leaving power concentrated in the hands of a few influential capitalists.

• A)civil service reform
• B)finance capitalism
• C)free silver
• D)Gilded Age
• E)gospel of wealth
• F)Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• G)Jim Crow
• H)trust
• I)Sherman Antitrust Act
• J)social Darwinism
• K)spoils system
• L)Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

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Definitions:

Patricia Hill Collins

An American sociologist known for her research and theory on race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality, especially in the context of black feminist thought.

Materialist Approach

A perspective that emphasizes the importance of physical conditions and economic factors in determining societal changes and individual behavior.

Critical Theory

A philosophical approach that seeks to understand and critique society and culture, advocating for societal changes.

Political Economy

An interdisciplinary field that examines the relationship between politics and economics, focusing on the ways in which political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system influence each other.